From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 00:38:15 MDT
Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote:
> I think this is very good news, and I am not too surprised. The Church has a
> long long history as a political organization, and would not have survived
> that long without adapting to changing times. They are realistic and
> pragmatic enough to understand that if something is coming anyway regardless
> of their approval, they better adapt to it and adopt it as if it had been
> their idea from the beginning, I think sooner or later the Vatican, if they
> want to survive, may endorse stem cell research, sex education, birth
> control, homosexuality, women's rights.
Giulio, I think that's far too grudging an approval. Maybe they're just
ordinary humans who want to do the nice thing and, by golly, got it right
regardless of our own stereotyped preconceptions? Can't we just
congratulate them on that?
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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